21.3.13

Pixie play

Despite not having a single WIP on my tiny little list even remotely likely to be finished for the FAL, I
have found myself in a state of 'new quilt frenzy'. The kinda project
that gets stuck in your head and just will not go away until you make
it. That quilt frenzy came from seeing this free Craftsy course on how to make a pixelated quilt.

Trying
to find a picture to use has taken me the best part of a week, but
finally after an awful lot of auditioning I settled on this one from my
MSc graduation. This was taken back in 2005, when I was young, sans
eye wrinkles and stress free ;-)

I
cropped the picture down to just my left eye, changed the pixels to 32 x
32 and messed around with the saturation and contrast to get this...

My
eyes are quite grey/blue but I am using my artistic license and
changing them to a more prettier colour ;-). So out came my trusty Kona
colour card from which I picked Kona Teal, Cyan and Peacock and six
shades of grey (not fifty Charlotte!). For the background I am using
Kona Snow.

The
next step was building the chart in a
spreadsheet to work as a guide for cutting/piecing. Just need to
calculate fabric yardage and get it ordered ASAP, because I really want
to get on with this!